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"Party like its 1980" Disco Fever! The greatest dance songs, the parties of your life occurred in the 80's. From "Gloria" to "Shake Your Grove Thing", "We Are Family" to "YMCA" sing along and have a party with an 80's theme.

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Like Totally 80's Style

The key to pulling off a coordinated event: Evoke your theme throughout the affair. Whether that theme is as general as a season or a feeling, or as specific as a special flower, it should be the subtle thread that ties everything together. Your location, invitations, flowers, menu, cake, and favors should all cleverly reflect one common concept. Then, get as creative as you can!

Life is about laughing, so what could be more outrageous than throwing an '80s party, dressing up strange, and talking like an extra from "16 candles."
The greatest dance songs, the parties of your life occurred in the 80's. From "Gloria" to "Shake Your Grove Thing", "We Are Family" to "YMCA",  sing along and have a party with an 80's theme.

You'll have to decide in the beginning how you want your party to feel. Because your party can either have a early '80s clubs-scene, "Miami Vice" drug dealer feel, or a new-waver teen pop culture feel, either way people can dress like Don Johnson, Cyndi Lauper, Duran Duran, Boy George, Madonna, & etc. Just make sure you specify in your Invitations what you would like to see," You're, like, totally invited". I think the larger the party is you should focus more on the atmospheric and social aspects with great food, drinks, & a live band or DJ. Mix-music and dancing. If your party has fewer than 30 guests I would focus more on recorded music.

Invitations

Keep in mind that your invitations are the key to opening up your guests '80s trunk.  They should laugh when they see your invitation, they should immediately be thinking  about what they're going to wear, and how they can come prepared to reminisce about '80s pop culture. Be sure to date your invite with the actual month, and the year which you want to remember most, such as 1984 (you may want to specify the importance of that year).
 

You could also do something creative, like a Back To The Future invite. It could say something like; Hey McFly, did things turn out the way you thought they would Twenty years ago? What Happened? If you want to find out, jump into your DeLorean and meet up with us for a party on Saturday, August 8th 1985. Be sure to dress in only 80's clothes, anything else could create a paradox, which could result in a chain reaction that could unravel the space-time continuum and destroy the entire universe!!

Decorations

Disco Inferno!
Our Mirrored Disco Balls can hang from the ceiling and some can sit on matching mirror bases. Set the lights and watch them reflect around the room! They are sure to get the party started! Use as centerpieces or as a hanging decoration!

Shake Your Groove Thing!
Add to your Disco Theme decorations with our 12' long foil ceiling Dance Fever Decoration!

Set the Scene to Party!
Dance the night away and transform your room with our selection of Disco Scene Setters. Mix & Match our 50' x 4' Disco Boogie room roll with all of the Disco Party Scene Setters.

More Disco 80's Decorations

 
Anything fluorescent or glow-in-the-dark is great.. Have a Black Light Party. When there is black light in the room certain items have the ability to glow with its reflection. It adds another dimension to the scene. Glow products glow brighter in black light. In this section you will find items known to glow in black light.

If you own any vinyl record albums you can display the jackets around the party location on tables etc..

You could also display one or several monitors playing an '80s film just for a background flair.  Try to avoid placing it where people will camp and watch a film instead of participating in activities.

Punk 80's Fun Stuff

Music

Dance the night away to the all time greatest disco music.

You could request in the invitations for guests whom are computer savvy, to compile CDs of their favorite '80s music to bring along, pop them in play them random, and you're set.

There are also really good streaming radio stations on the internet with no commercials (don't play FM radio for your party), and it is really easy to connect your computer's  audio-out to your  home stereo. if your stereo system or receiver has RCA aux. input all you need is a cord with mini-jack to RCA conversion. you can get that sort of thing at most stereo shops.

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Live bands and DJs

If you want your party to be better than the Jones', hire a vinyl mixing DJ, (no "i play cd's" rip off dj's ) or book an '80s band, depending on your choice of music. I would recommend having both so that you can please the masses. Plus the DJ can play while the band is setting up or breaking down. I would prefer the band in the earlier hours of my party to kick things off while you're eating and socializing, or even doing certain activities. Then I would want the D. J. to mix vinyl so you could dance into the night. P.S. karaoke always rocks!!!

Food

Snack foods from the 80's

Make a cake that looks like a Rubik's Cube. Use 8 inch square pans and bake 3 layers. Frost the sides white and the top red or blue. Use black string licorice to divide the cubes.

Drinks

Find a great punch recipe and label it "Rave Punch".

Bacardi, Pink champagne, Wine Coolers, & etc.

Warning:  If you are from the class of 198X you are probably too old to do a keg stand, although if you think you have good health insurance, just remember, Teamwork.  There is no I in DRUNK.

Attire

Make It Policy. Set a non admittance policy such as; Women will not be admitted unless wearing ____ or hair is ____ . Men will not be admitted unless wearing ____ or ____. 

Have some 80's accessories on hand for guests to dress up in. Add metallic colors to brighten up your party using a "Nobody Does It Better" Kit. This kit is a party staple. Great for 50-80 people.

Remember the Disco Era with a Disco Party Pack and dance the night away. Play the Funky Music! Let your guests participate with a Band On The Run Kit,  24 piece assortment of inflatable instruments. This special kit contains three instruments of each style. Great for Karaoke too.!

Black Light Party Items  are always a hit! .

Visit the website In The Eighties for a list of some of the fad fashions of the Eighties.

Activities

Disco Party Game

The Disco Era!
How well do you know the Disco Era? Encourage your guests to mingle at your Disco Party with our Disco Party Game! Their goal is to guess the Disco star's name placed on their back, using clues given by other guests!
 

Rubiks cube challenge

I've never really tried to solve a Rubik's Cube, I don't know how long it takes. I assume that it takes a while, if so, you will want several cubes.  This could be something that goes on on the sidelines. Or if it doesn't take long, with only a couple cubes challengers could be timed throughout the evening, and a prize awarded at the end of the night.  If it really takes a long time, then guests could compete merely to accomplish one side of the cube.

Ferris Bueler Forensics

Prepare clips from your favorite 80's film. Play the clip muted and see who can recite the line from the dialogue word for word. Some clips can be really challenging, remember the doorbell from Ferris' house? Make sure you have the line written out ahead to test your contestants against, even if you think you know it hands down.

'80s TV guessing game

You can buy CD compilations of '80s TV themes, or search for downloadable or archive playable versions on the Web, they don't even have to be original recordings, a lot of bands do covers of TV themes, and this would even make the game more challenging. Split your party into groups.  Have a group captain selected to answer on behalf of each group. Sound "buzzers" can be confusing. Use some kind of lamp or light for a "buzzer", it's a lot easier to see who's light is on first than it is to determine who makes a sound first. Play each TV theme in increments of one to three notes.  Penalize teams who answer incorrectly.  Reward teams who guess the correct name of the show, say 10 points.  Then that team also is given a chance to sing the first verse and chorus of the correct lyrics to the TV theme (if it has any) with say two minutes to prepare.  You may decide to provide scratch paper for this or none. Give them a 100 point bonus or something.

80's shows

'80s Music ace game

The music ace game should be played similar to the TV themes game.  Although, instead of just playing the music, I would play a short clip in fast forward or slow motion. Only award points for the correct title and artist.  You could reward a bonus to the team that answers correctly, if they can sing the last verse and chorus correctly with two minutes to prepare.

Valley talk-off

Separate into two teams. Guys against girls is always fun. if it's an office party, I think teams like architects vs. engineers are fun. Maybe smokers vs. nonsmokers.  I played a game once where one person from each team had to exchange rhyming phrases (that made sense) in response to what the other person had said.  Flip a coin and decide which team goes first.  Decide on a certain criteria, and tell both teams what they're objective is.  For example; you must use five slang terms per response, dude, totally, like, bitchin, radical, etc... The spokesperson who wins the coin toss starts by saying something like; "Dude, I just went to this totally like bitchin new store, it was radical."  The other teams spokesperson would have to respond likewise; "Dude was it at that totally like new radical mall with a bitchin pretzel shop? The first team to screw up has to switch spokespersons, and the other team scores points.  Make it a sweet prize, and you'll get some seriously feisty Valley girl surfer arguments. It could be really entertaining if it turned into a Valley talk "diss-off."

'80s Trivia

This is pretty self-explanatory there are  80's trivia games out there.  If you're group is too large to play the board game version, then simply hand-pick some of your favorite questions out of the box and ask those, in a jeopardy format. 

80s Music Karaoke

There may be downloadable versions of karaoke songs out there.  Of course there are Karaoke R & B Hits From the 80s and 90s and Top Tunes Karaoke CDG 80's Pack TT-80s PK .  These would be the cheapest ways to go, but it can be a lot of work finding printable lyrics. Of course you can also buy some pretty cool CD Karaoke Machines with monitor displays for fairly inexpensive prices, although the CDs are expensive. If you know that your friends are into it, hiring a karaoke DJ is well worth the money.  They want you to hire them again, and they will do their best to make sure that you and your guests are having a blast!!  Do it for fun, Or do for prizes!!!  Either way karaoke rocks!!!!

lip sync hysteria

Some people who won't karaoke will lip sync and act totally crazy, all you've got to have is a good archive list of music or a DJ. 

Water cooler dance moves

If your guests are dancers and remember all the moves they could dooo it alllll niggggghhht long! Do it for fun, and do it for prizes!!!!

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